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  "company": "Target",
  "headline": "Protein bars and meat sticks displaced legacy snacks; shelf reallocation lifted category sales",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Grocery category refresh and shelf reallocation · Target\n\nProtein bars and meat sticks displaced legacy snacks; shelf reallocation lifted category sales.\n\ndon't pitch Target on 'building a new snack category.' Wait for them to remodel the section, then pitch the specific SKU they just created shelf space for. Target's data showed protein bars and meat sticks moving faster; they expanded the allotment. If you have a protein or functional snack, call Target's meat-and-snacks buyer in Q4 and ask which sections got expanded in their latest remodel. Pitch the open slot, not the category education.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/target-2026-08-20t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/target-2026-08-20t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/target-2026-08-20t15-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Grocery category refresh and shelf reallocation · Target\n\nProtein bars and meat sticks displaced legacy snacks; shelf reallocation lifted category sales.\n\ndon't pitch Target on 'building a new snack category.' Wait for them to remodel the section, then pitch the specific SKU they just created shelf space for. Target's data showed protein bars and meat sticks moving faster; they expanded the allotment. If you have a protein or functional snack, call Target's meat-and-snacks buyer in Q4 and ask which sections got expanded in their latest remodel. Pitch the open slot, not the category education.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/target-2026-08-20t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/target-2026-08-20t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/target-2026-08-20t15-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Grocery category refresh and shelf reallocation · Target\n\nProtein bars and meat sticks displaced legacy snacks; shelf reallocation lifted category sales.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/target-2026-08-20t15-3",
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      "title": "Protein bars and meat sticks displaced legacy snacks; shelf reallocation lifted category sales",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nTarget refreshed its snack section, creating significantly more shelf space for protein bars and meat sticks, and reported a documented sales boom in the reinvented snack category, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): don't pitch Target on 'building a new snack category.' Wait for them to remodel the section, then pitch the specific SKU they just created shelf space for. Target's data showed protein bars and meat sticks moving faster; they expanded the allotment. If you have a protein or functional snack, call Target's meat-and-snacks buyer in Q4 and ask which sections got expanded in their latest remodel. Pitch the open slot, not the category education.\nWhat that means for you: don't pitch Target on 'building a new snack category.' Wait for them to remodel the section, then pitch the specific SKU they just created shelf space for. Target's data showed protein bars and meat sticks moving faster; they expanded the allotment. If you have a protein or functional snack, call Target's meat-and-snacks buyer in Q4 and ask which sections got expanded in their latest remodel. Pitch the open slot, not the category education.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/big-box-briefing-target-sees-sales-boom-in-reinvented-snack-category/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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